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Advogato blog for nelsonrnen-usmod_virguleTue, 3 Mar 2015 20:22:16 GMTSun, 27 Jul 2003 03:04:37 GMT27 Jul 2003http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=14
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=14Been forever since I posted. Mostly posting on <a href="http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/" >my blog</a> these days. Looks to me like Advogato's trust model is broken, in that idiots are trusted on the Master level. Said idiots should feel free to consider me an idiot as well. The fact that nobody can tell which is the idiot by consulting Advogato's trust model says that there is something wrong with it. Either that, or the criteria for trusting someone is wrong. Or my understanding of it is wrong. In any case, I've been spending a LOT LESS time reading Advogato lately.
-russ
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:51:30 GMT20 Sep 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=13
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=13Discovered cool accounting (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable) software, <a href="http://sql-ledger.org" >SQL-Ledger</a>. Now to see if I can convince my customer to use it so that I can add grain accounting to it. Then to publicise it and crush at least one horrifically-priced vertical market.
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:50:30 GMT30 Aug 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=12
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=12w00t w00t! Our club (the Grateful Oars rowing club) beat Ottawa and Montreal last Saturday at the recreational rower's sprints up in Ottawa! I was at <a href="http://www.nysfair.org/" >State Fair</a> helping my kids compete in <a href="http://www.4husa.org" >4-H</a> events. Eric took second place in public presentations on the state level! So as a consequence, I wasn't in the race boat, even though I trained alongside them.
<p> <p> <p> Teaching CS450 at Clarkson. Haven't scared off too many of the kids yet, so I must not be doing something right.
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:08:54 GMT6 Aug 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=11
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=11Finally got a domain name for <a href="http://www.pygps.org" >pyGPS</a>. Was using the Pretec CF GPS with my iPAQ CF sleeve, but the Navman GPS sleeve is FAR sturdier. It also has a CF slot of its own, so you don't lose your only CF slot.
My catch is getting better. Actually, I'm pretty satisfied with it right now. I've got other things that need cleaning up, like arms away, and coming out of the water square, and not wobbling the boat. If I improve enough, I might be in the race boat up in Ottawa this year.
Dropped my iPAQ, screen-down. $242 later and I basically have a new iPAQ, given that they replaced the motherboard as well.Fri, 3 May 2002 17:36:02 GMT3 May 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=10
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=10Did I say that I won an iPAQ for my pyGPS application? Very handy to have two -- now one can be stable (and usable) and the other subject to the whims of jamey, a7r, dc, and others. Got tinyx running on my <a href="http://www.tuxscreen.net" >Tuxscreen</a>. Found my first <a href="http://www.geocaching.org" >geocache</a>. Gonna create my own as well.
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:15:47 GMT30 Jul 2001http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=9
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=9<p>Lost my <a href="http://handhelds.org" >iPAQ</a> earlier
this month. Sucked big-time. Went out and bought another.
The old one had 32M ram / 32M flash. New one has 64M ram /
16 M flash. Also got a pcmcia sleeve, so now I can do
wireless. Got myself two <a
href="http://www.linksys.com">Linksys</a> access points.
I'm using them as access points now, but I'm expecting to
use them to hook up my neighbors by putting them in bridging
mode.
<p> <p>Another beautiful day on the water. I'm getting better
at the stroke. The catch is the hardest part for me right
now. I either get in the water too soon or too late. It's
got to be spot-on, within about 50 milliseconds. Anything
else and you slow the boat down.<br>-russ
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:34:51 GMT18 Oct 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=8
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=8Many moons have passed since last I diarized. Linux iPAQ
(LiPAQ) now has CF sleeve, and CF Ethernet card. It's cool
to run x2x. Move the cursor down below the screen, and it
appears on your handheld. Enough about me, let's talk about
you.
-russ
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:51:19 GMT25 Jul 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=7
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=7Finished Goblet of Fire a few weeks ago, so I can resume
normal life. No, I'm not going to tell you who dies. Got a
Kinesis Contour keyboard, in an attempt to address my RSI.
It's nice to use my thumbs for backspace and enter, but I
don't like the way I have to reach with my thumbs to hold
ctrl and enter. The perfect keyboard has not yet been
invented.
<p> <p>I've got a <a
href="http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/">Compaq
iPaq</a> on order, along with the PCMCIA sleeve. Looking
forward to the GPS and camera sleeves, although they're
still deep in development. Yes, of course, I'm going to <a
href="http://www.handhelds.org">reflash it with Linux</a>.
I suppose the Microsoft crap doesn't suck so very badly, but
I know there'll be an itch I want to scratch, and no way is
it worth learning Microsoft tools in order to do it.
<p> <p> I wish electronic design was easier. I wish that
someone
made a digitally-controlled motor. I want to tell the motor
"Go here and take X ms to do it." It could make a lot of
neat hacks much easier to do. Another hack I'm closer to
actually doing is to take a PIC or 8051 with an A/D
converter, and hook it to a hobbyist servomotor. I'll
generate the pulse needed to control it, and measure the
motor drive signal with the A/D. When the motor gets
driven, I'll command the motor to run in that direction.
That way, I could position something by hand, and yet also
instruct the computer to move it back to that position.
<p> <p> In my copious spare time,
-russ
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:31:59 GMT12 Jul 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=6
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=6Diary entry?? You must be kidding!! I haven't finished
Boglet of Fire yet!
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:52:47 GMT14 Jun 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=5
http://www.advogato.org/person/nelsonrn/diary.html?start=5Sometimes I feel like I'm never getting ahead with the
money. First we bought another 143 acres, then we paid our
taxes (both cost about the same). Now it's a new car
(Subaru Outback), and taxes again!
<p> If I could ever get ahead, just for a few months, I could do
*everything* I've been dreaming about doing. Write the
qmail book. Write a CORBA interface to qmail. Write a ui
to the CORBA interface.
<p> There's a bazillion thing I want to do. I've just gotta
quit fooling around and become wealthy, so I can do the
things <b>Russ</b> wants to do, not the things my customers
want me to do.